Brigham City, Utah Essays

  • Prejudice

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    beliefs to their children. A lot people raised in the southern part of the country are prejudice against blacks. In the early to mid 1960’s, prejudice was alive and well in the south. Blacks had their own bathrooms and were forced to ride in the back of city busses. It’s hard to believe that was doing on only 40 years ago. A lot of Middle Eastern countries are very prejudice against women. The Civil War was based on prejudice beliefs. The North wanted to keep slavery and the South wanted to abolish slavery

  • Roughing It By Mark Twain

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    Roughing it was written by Mark Twain. This book is a journal of Mark Twain and his brother's trip to Carson City, Nevada. They went because Mark Twain's brother had a job as the Secretary of Nevada. This book, journal, started when they were leaving to go to Carson City; and ended when Mark Twain decided to move to New York instead of living in San Francisco or any part of the wild west. In between this time he talked about how they became rich and how they lost it and how they became rich again

  • Joseph Smith or Brigham Young's Contributions to the Mormon Movement

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    Joseph Smith or Brigham Young's Contributions to the Mormon Movement Many settlers travelled east, but the most important religious group to travel east was the Mormons. The Mormon religion was started by a person called Joseph Smith. A Smith grew up on his farm, angles appeared telling him there was a book (written upon golden plates) on a hillside near Manchester, New York. Once dug up, the plates were published in a translated version, which contained statements of his father and brothers

  • An Essay On Utah's Geography

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    Utah is an amazing state. Utah is home to the Blue Spruce, California Gull, and the Sego Lily. Utah has so many explorers, settlers, famous people, and events, as well as the beautiful geography, important cities, and interesting facts. It is so famous for it’s snow. The state nickname is a state that has something for everyone. Famous Explorers were determined to inhabit Utah. In 1776, Dominique and Escalante, spanish missionaries, were the first to record the exploration of Utah. Then in

  • The Massacre of Captain John Gunnison and his Explorers in 1853

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    Two events took place in the mid-19th century in the United States that set the stage for a third which became an historic turning point in American history. The settlement of Mormons in Utah and their pursuit to establish their own government coupled with explorations to develop the transcontinental railroad laid the groundwork for the massacre of Captain John Gunnison and his explorers in 1853 which took eight lives. As massacres go, the loss of eight people was not numerically remarkable. What

  • Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith

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    o... ... middle of paper ... ... 18 6 Helen Z. Papanikolas, ed., The Peoples of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1976), 119. 7 Saints, Slaves, and Blacks. 99. 8 Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism: Shadow or Reality (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1972), 277 9 Saints, Slaves and Blacks. 99 10 Pearl of Great Price. 31. 11 Mormonism: Shadow or Reality 12 The Peoples of Utah. 137. 13 Saints, Slaves and Blacks. 182. 14 Kendall White Jr. and Daryl White, “Abandoning

  • Planning for Renovation

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    Purchasing a home may be the largest and most probable financial risk an individual or group can take. In addition to requiring a substantial down payment, owning a home requires a stable income for mortgage payments as well as for repairs or upgrades. Such an investment often serves as a source of equity, but poor decisions can cause it to become a financial nightmare. Acquiring a $150,000 dollar credit to improve a real estate property does not guarantee a solid return on the investment without

  • The BCS National Championship Game

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    over $376 million a year, distributed among the eleven conferences, the average that each conference would receive over $34.18 million. The humanoid version of the BCS polls is one of the reasons for most of the hullabaloo. In 2008 the University of Utah had a 13-0 record, the only unbeaten team in the Football Bowl Subdivi... ... middle of paper ... ...ayoff system would give teams an equal opportunity to win the national championship game. Works Cited "Should college football replace the

  • Exploring Why the Mormons Settled in Salt Lake City

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    Mormons Settled in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City is located in the west of North America. It was a desolate wilderness, dry, and a place where many people assumed was uninhabitable. So why did the Mormons ‘relocate’ to such an unattractive and diverse place? Brigham Young, in 1845 organised the mass movement of 15000 men, women and children travelling on a journey of over 2250km from the USA to Salt Lake City. But why do this? Both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young believed that it was God’s

  • Social And Political Reactions To Mormon Polygamy

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    Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: Alred A Knopf, Inc., 1895. Arrington, Leonard J. ed. The Presidents of the Church. Salt Lake: Desert Books, 1986. Arrington, Leonard J. "Joseph Smith," Presidents. Arrington, Leonard, J. "Brigham Young," Presidents. Benton, William, ed. Encyclopedia Britanica. Chicago, 1965. Bitton, Davis & Beecher, Maureen U. New Views of Mormon History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. Doctrine & Covenants. Salt Lake City: The Church of

  • Mormon Pioneers

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    Between 1847 and 1869, more than 70,000 Saints made the trip across 1,300 miles of trail to Salt Lake City, Utah. Doing so would hopefully give them a place where they could worship freely. Making the journey was taking a stand. Taking a stand means taking a risk for something one believes in. The LDS pioneers took a stand in history when they went west, creating a city where they could worship freely. The early church started off small, but steadily grew in numbers. The church started on April

  • The Mormons' Success in Setting Up a New Community

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    Illinois allowed them to have their own laws and army; he also got permission to build his own city. However, the number of Mormons increased and the non-Mormons became worried. The non-Mormons were also disgusted by polygamy. Joseph Smith was then killed. When Joseph Smith was killed a man called Brigham Young took over as the leader of the Mormons. He led them successfully to Salt Lake City where he managed to set-up Zion. He got more Mormons to join by introducing the perpetual immigration

  • Jehovah Witness Worksheet

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    Jehovah Witness 1. When and how did the church begin? Jehovah Witnesses is believed to have started by Charles Taze Russell, back in 1872. Russell was told Jesus would be coming back soon and so he started to focus on the Bible. Russell had different ideas of the doctrine and decided to start a class to teach his beliefs and ideas. 2. Is there a founder? If so, what was their role? Charles Taze Russell started the idea of Jehovah Witnesses, it was originally called the Watchtower Society. Once

  • Southern Utah Community and History

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    The formation of Southern Utah is one of fascination. The Virgin River Anasazi were St. George’s earliest residents, occupying the area for over twelve hundred years. They left behind rock art and ruins of their dwellings. There vanishing from the area and leaving behind their dwellings and art is still a mystery to this day. The Paiute people arrived shortly after and have lived there ever since, utilizing the area as a hunting ground for deer, rabbits and other animals. The Paiutes also grew crops

  • Essay On Headphone

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    The inventor of the first modern headphone is Nathaniel Baldwin. Baldwin was born in a pioneer family in Utah in 1878. In his childhood, he was able to make a bicycle and a steam engine by himself. Baldwin’s family was members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). After he received a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, he taught in the Brigham Young University, which was his alma mater. In 1904, the president of the LDS declared the manifesto to

  • Donna Mccaleer Research Paper

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    Bishop, the current representative for Utah’s first congressional district is a life-long resident of the First District, with the exception of two years he spent in Germany while serving a mission for the LDS church. Rob is married to former Miss Brigham City. They have five children: Shule, Jarom, Zenock, Maren, and Jashon. Before becoming a representative, Rob was active in Community Theater, which is how he met his wife many years ago. He has served sixteen years in the state legislature, including

  • BYU Honor Code

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    A big disappointment comes just days before Brigham Young University (BYU) basketball team was to kick start the NCAA tournament. 19-year-old sophomore Brandon Davis was dismissed from the team for having consensual premarital sex with his girlfriend. He did not violated any government laws, however the University’s Honor Code states “live a chaste and virtuous life” (). The BYU Honor Code prohibits many behaviors ordinarily considered part of normal society such as: drinking coffee, alcohol, herbal

  • World Religion: Mormons

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    Smith was the first prophet and president of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. After the murder of Joseph Smith in 1844, a man named Brigham Young migrated with bulk of the Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847, where they made their home. Today, president and prophet of the current Church is Thomas S. Manson who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is the home of the Mormon Church headquarters, much like Rome, Italy is the hub of the Roman Catholic Church. Mormons accept the basic

  • The Mormon Family

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    women of Utah got the franchise; this was 50 years before the rest of the United States (Bushman 112). Later revoked in 1887, when all Utah citizens got disenfranchised by the U.S. Government during the crackdown on polygamy (112). This and the fact that Utah had a high rate of early female doctors, and women of the time had been encouraged to work for pay (112).This led people to believe that perhaps the church was at one time more responsive to females working out of the home. Brigham Young the

  • The Frontier as a Place of Ethnic and Religion Conflict by Patricia Nelson Limerick

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    become a citizen which will lead to other races becoming a citizen as well and the whites didn’t want that to happen. Mormons were prosperous so many people were jealous and became hostile and started to torment the Mormons, causing them to leave to Utah, where they thrived. Overall, the frontier was a place where many different races met and fought against one another through racial violence and discriminating against one another just because their race or color. Works Cited "Chapter 2 Western